No one person's view of art can be the same as another's. No one person's view can be truer or better. What's important about the view is not what is being seen so much as what is being felt by seeing it. By what is being understood in the context of the viewer's experience, not the artist's experience. Surely, art, in order to mean anything at all, has to mean as much to the viewer as it does to the artist... though it will not mean the same thing. That is the paradox and the value of art - its inherent ability to expand, and deepen, and clarify the viewer's life, at the expense of exposing the artist's. That is why art is so great, and why the artist's life is so awful.
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